I am about 16 days post op and I been having a couple weird reactions. First my belly has been itching all over. Pretty much since right after I came home. I noticed that I'm starting to break out on my belly. Second when I take my first drink of water or whatever I get this pain and discomfort in my upper abdomen. It usually lasts about a minute. As long as I keep drinking it kind of subsides. If I wait a while in between drinks if occurs all over again. I don't understand why this is happening??

I haven't had my first post op doctors appointment yet. It's on Friday so in the meantime I was wondering if anyone has experienced any of these symptoms?

The chest discomfort is likely because you are drinking too much in one sip or are full. The pouch is very high in the abdomen and what you feel in your chest is actually your new stomach!

If you're drinking really cold water, try room temperature. Sometimes very cold or very hot beverages don't feel good.

Do you actually have redness on your stomach? Are the incision sites angry looking? Is the itching superficial or below the skin? You could be allergic to something they used.

I had a severe reaction to the glue they used to close my incisions and that made my belly break out and really itchy. If you have redness around your incisions call you dr. My dr told me to get children's liquid Benadryl and take that for the itching. I also notice the more my inductions heal the more they itch. Hope this helps!

I had itchy and redness that was some type of reaction to the sutures. My 1 week post op was moved up and I was on heavy Benadryl for a few days which helped tremendously. Then once back on my once a day Zyrtec it went away pretty much. I wasn't taking the Zyrtec right after surgery just because I didn't feel like trying to chug down a pill when I already didn't feel good.